After the new year, the villagers who worked outside the home gradually returned home. The usually quiet village was very lively at once, and the young people who could not be seen in ordinary times returned to the village. With young people, the village has vitality.
Before the festival, the village after 9 p.m. was already dark and silent. This night, the sound of noisy television and tweeters was heard from every house, and the village suddenly came to life. Young people brought back a lot of fresh things from outside, which added to the atmosphere of the festival. The most joyful thing is that the old mother of each family, who earns more and earns less, rarely sees her children all year round, is thin, wronged, and this night of return is naturally to tell the sour, sweet and bittersweet of this year. Home is the harbor, is the destination of the soul. All the unhappiness and grievances that came back quickly vanished.
The days that followed were the busiest days and the happiest days. Whether there is money or not, every household has begun to prepare new year goods, but some people are rich and some are simple. People with children, that is, must prepare new clothes for children, children most look forward to is on the New Year's day to wear their beloved new clothes, in front of their friends to show off. Richer families also buy some toys, boys want toy guns the most, girls want headgear and so on, which is even cooler.
With the new clothes in place, the next step is to prepare the food. Chicken, duck and fish meat This is a must for the New Year, before every household raised chickens and ducks, so chickens and ducks do not have to buy, to approach the New Year's Pass, use their own home on the line, these foods are to worship the gods and ancestors, so chickens and ducks must be killed by men, women can only remove chicken feathers and duck feathers, which is a legacy of feudal superstition. Kill chickens and ducks, children are the happiest, because chicken and duck feathers can be exchanged for money, 5 hairs and 1 piece, for us when we were young, it is already a big money, with this money can buy a box of cannons, cannons bring wireless fun to our childhood. Nowadays, firecrackers are banned in the city, and a lot of fun is lost.
Fish and meat are not available to every family, and this requires money to buy. Rich people buy more, not rich people buy less, anyway, each family has its own way of life, all year round can not be too aggrieved family and children. When I was young, my family was not too wealthy, but now in retrospect, the year is not very sad. In my impression, it is still joyful.
There are also some special foods in our hometown, such as meatballs, enemas, five-spice rolls, etc. Before I got married, every year fried meat and five-spice rolls were my work, I like to do this work, while frying can be eaten at the same time, every time I am fried I am full. I have also learned the practice of these hometown specialties, and now I am outside the home, I will also make these dishes to comfort the pain of homesickness. As for making enemas, this is a technical job that only parents will do, and each family has a recipe for each family, and each family has a different taste. I have not learned this delicacy until now, and I can only eat it when I want to eat it back to my hometown. But now that I am a guest in another country, it is rare to go back several times a year, and I can only look at my hometown and sigh.
Other New Year goods, that is, some candy, fruit and the like. There is a kind of candy that must be bought, that is, golden dates (candied fruit), which is during the Spring Festival, guests come to the house, must be on the candy, with a toothpick inserted, pay tribute to the guests but also say some auspicious words, such as the next year smooth and smooth, Wishing you prosperity and other auspicious words.
All the food was ready and waiting for the Chinese New Year's Eve meal Chinese New Year's Eve. Now most people find the new year boring, because now a lot of food does not have to be prepared by themselves, can be bought with money, and it is not as fun as working together as before.
The New Year is lively, and the happy scene of working together is over, but now some processes are gone, and the taste of the Year is faded.